Basically, your weekly weekend reading:
• If you like infographics, here are two: One that details every affair Zeus ever had, an another that details how the world could end. Exciting eh? (Co.Exist)
• Japan’s elections and the challenges that’ll need to be addressed. (Fair Observer)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
-Miriam Beard
A few more pages and I’ll be finished with Paul Theroux’s The Kingdom by [...]
Last year I wrote a lot about my childhood and hometown, which prompted a writing project of sorts. I did a call for stories from people who currently live, or have lived in Japan [...]
I’ve read many times that revisiting older posts is typically a good idea. Not only does it allow me to see how I have progressed as a writer, but it also allows new readers to read an old post. With two years of posts published, I’ve decided to start revisiting old posts – with one [...]
I have decided to work on a writing project on the idea of “home”. It’s been my experience that even thought people might live in city A, they still call city B their “home” for whatever reason that is entirely theirs.
For my project, I would like to provide a portrait of what many people, [...]
Today I present you, my dearest reader, the other half of my childhood: living and playing off the base. My previous ‘home sweet home’ post talked mostly about life on base and its dramatic changes. The green jungle became a concrete, monochromatic dead space where time was mostly spent either [...]

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